Another 44C humidex day. I keep telling myself that it is worse elsewhere (the weather station reports that NYC has a humidex today of 49C and Chicago is at 52C!) but that does not seem to help much. Best part of the day was hosing the horses down by myself: we all got totally soaking wet with cold water from the hose. Ahhhh! I just may have got a little sloppy with it on purpose. (No a/c you see: got to get primitive)

Try living in Pretoria which is built in a huge dip and all the cold air rushes overhead.

Logged

As time goes by, you will seeThat we're going to be free, you and meWe'll touch the skyCan you see in your mind's eye that we are oneWe're all the same and life is just a simple game.

Around the mid-high 80's today here in the Northeast. You should have seen our AC unit on Thursday and Friday when it was over 100 F. The water ran out of it all day and totally soaked our porch and the welcome mat. This really drove home the point abut the amount of humidity in the air.

Weather in August in Germany here was too hot, too dry (both way above the averages) and we had more sunshine than the usual norm. We still had a few hot days at the beginning of September, but things have been cooling down in the last ten days or so. Lots of rain almost every day and night, morning fog, chilly nights and temps between 52-60 F.They are predicting a "golden Autumn" but I hate those more than a hot summer. We had a "golden Autumn" two years ago, with people walking around in tees and shorts in October. It was totally surreal.

Had a great big thunderstorm last night, we actually had the computers and TV's turned off for fear of a power surge from a lightning strike. Wake up this morning and I've got wet carpeting around the outside perimeter of the basement. That's only happened once before in the 18 years we've lived here, and that time the whole area got declared a disaster area due to all the flooding and stuff. So that was one hell of a rainstorm last night.

I was so looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend too. Now I get to move furniture and shampoo carpeting. You never realize how much crap there is in a room until you've got to move it all and it's all damp on the bottom